Mickey shoots Bill in the arm, tries to strangle Linda (mistaking her for Laura), & is committed (against Alice, Linda, & Maggie's opposition.)Johnny returns when Robert wires him that Rebecca is pregnant. Johnny wants Rebecca to abort. Robert proposes marriage.Brooke accompanies Trish to Arizona to investigate Trish's biological father.After Laura visits Mickey in the sanitarium, he tries to strangle a blonde nurse who looks like her.On the way back to Salem in a snowstorm, Laura goes into labor. She and Bill stop at a farm & the farmer's wife (Rosie) helps deliver Bill & Laura's baby girl (i.e. Jennifer Rose Horton.)Mickey wants to act as his own counsel (!) at his commitment hearing & pretends to be sane.Greg helps Susan realize that she's frigid.

I am so used to reading about someone pretending to be insane to get off when charged with a crime, I laughed when I saw the Mickey pretending to be sane so he could represent himself.Can someone please explain what this portion of the storyline was all about? Also interested in what Greg did to help Susan realize she was frigid?

It does seem kind of funny when you read it like this that Mickey was pretending to be sane. If he was insane, how would he be able to control that, lol? But, he was just trying to act normal so he wouldn't be committed to the sanitarium.

Can't remember what Greg did for Susan re her being frigid other than talk it over with her. Susan being frigid and men being impotent were Bill Bell's influence. He wrote a lot of psychological based stories, in the 70s especially.